Tony Felloni

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Tony Felloni
Born
Anthony Carroll

1943 (age 78–79)
Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Other namesKing Scum
Criminal statusreleased in 2011
Spouse(s)Anne Marie Flynn
Children8
Criminal chargeconspiracy to import heroin
Penalty20 years' imprisonment

Anthony "Tony" Felloni (born Anthony Carroll, 1943) is an Irish heroin dealer, pimp and career criminal.[1] He became a hate figure in the 1980s and 1990s, blamed for "flooding" Dublin with heroin and creating the city's first generation of "junkies."[2][3][4][5]

Early life[]

Felloni was born in Dublin in 1943 to Renaldo Felloni (an Italian immigrant) and a Miss Carroll.[6] As his parents were not married, he was given his mother's surname, calling him Anthony Carroll.[7]

Carroll adopted his father's surname in 1959. He married Anne Marie Flynn in 1969.[8]

Criminal career[]

Carroll began as a blackmailer; he would seduce impressionable women from rural areas and force them to pose for nude photographs, threatening to send the pictures to their parents unless they paid him.[9] He later began to force women into prostitution;[10] in 1964 he was convicted of "procuring young girls for immoral purposes".[11] In the 1970s he turned to burglary.[12]

In 1980 Felloni moved to Great Britain and began to work in the growing drugs trade; he was arrested in Surrey in 1981 and jailed for four years for conspiracy to import heroin. He returned to Dublin and was again imprisoned in 1986 for heroin dealing, receiving a ten-year sentence. Felloni was paroled in 1993.

In the 1980s and '90s he was one of Dublin's largest heroin suppliers, after usurping Larry Dunne's position as the city's main dealer.[13][14] His children worked as couriers and tasters, many of them being later imprisoned.[15] Ali Bracken claimed in the Sunday Tribune that "He enlisted his children to help him sell heroin when they were just teenagers and encouraged them to experiment with the drug so that he could control them."[16]

In June 1996 Felloni was sentences to twenty years' imprisonment for heroin trafficking.[9] Assets of over IR£400,000 were seized in 1998;[17] it was estimated that Felloni had earned £875,000 from drug dealing since 1988.[18]

In 1998, Paul Reynolds published King Scum: The Life and Crimes of Tony Felloni, a bestselling book about Felloni and his criminal career.[19]

In 2010, Gardaí seized another €500,000 from the family. Felloni was released in January 2011 after serving 14+1⁄2 years; at 67 years old and suffering from AIDS, he was not expected to return to crime.[16][20]

Personal life[]

Felloni's wife is the sister of Dublin politician Mannix Flynn.[21][8][22] He had six children with her and two more with a mistress. Most of his children were part of the Felloni crime network, many of them developing heroin addictions and HIV.[23] Felloni was also physically abusive to Anne Marie, being three times convicted of assaulting her.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ "Heroin dealer's poverty plea to Revenue revealed". independent.
  2. ^ "Drug dealer Tony Felloni freed from jail after 15 years". tribune.ie.
  3. ^ Post, Colin (January 27, 2017). Mad Outta Me Head: Addiction and Underworld from Ireland to Colombia. Independently Published. ISBN 9781520456485 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Mara, Sandra (September 28, 2016). "No Job For A Woman". Poolbeg Press Ltd – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Holohan, Conn; Tracy, Tony (February 20, 2014). Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger's Tales. Springer. ISBN 9781137300249 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Reynolds, Paul (January 2, 1998). "King scum: the life and crimes of Tony Felloni, Dublin's heroin boss". Gill and Macmillan – via www.drugsandalcohol.ie.
  7. ^ "Drug dealer daughter of 'King Scum' Felloni avoids prison sentence". independent.
  8. ^ a b "Mannix Flynn, Sunday Times Profile, elected member of Aosdana". www.irishsalem.com.
  9. ^ a b Maher, John. "Felloni family history paints gruesome picture". The Irish Times.
  10. ^ Walsh, Fintan; White, Willie (October 4, 2013). That Was Us: Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781783195343 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ "In her final article for the 'Sunday Independent', published this". The Independent. June 27, 1996.
  12. ^ a b "No light in sordid fable of heroin boss Felloni". The Irish Times.
  13. ^ Reynolds, Paul (May 19, 2020). "Notorious drug dealer Larry Dunne dies in Dublin" – via www.rte.ie. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. ^ "Daughter of 'King Scum' heroin baron Tony Felloni claims she can't get home because of father's past". independent.
  15. ^ "KING SCUM'S AIDS VICTIM DAUGHTER GOES ON THE RUN; Felloni skips prison after Communion leave. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com.
  16. ^ a b "He laid waste to Dublin's inner city, and to his own children". tribune.ie.
  17. ^ "£400,000 confiscated from Felloni family". independent.
  18. ^ "Court orders the seizure of over £400,000 in Felloni family assets". The Irish Times.
  19. ^ Reynolds, Paul (January 2, 1998). King Scum: The Life and Crimes of Tony Felloni, Dublin's Heroin Boss. Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 9780717127948 – via Google Books.
  20. ^ "News in brief" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  21. ^ O'Reilly, Emily (September 30, 2012). Veronica Guerin. Random House. ISBN 9781448156566 – via Google Books.
  22. ^ Bassett, Fred (June 6, 2021). "Mannix Flynn has Proved, anybody can Change their Lives around, from Jail Times, to Defender of the Police, and Protecter of Civil Society? As Mannix would tell you himself, he sat Cuffed in the Back of many a Squad car. As it says below: Welcome home Mannix?".
  23. ^ Williams, Paul (October 27, 2011). Badfellas. Penguin UK. ISBN 9780141970295 – via Google Books.
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